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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

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#3

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

tags: books, catherine, or-the-bower

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#4

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

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#5

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship

tags: romance

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#6

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#7

“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

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#8

“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. ”
― Jane Austen

tags: education, women

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#9

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

-Mr. Darcy”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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#10

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: jane-austen

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#11

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: profound

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#12

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

tags: humor

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#13

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#14

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: battle-of-the-sexes, life

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#15

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: happiness

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#16

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: life, music

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#17

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you”
― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

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#18

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

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#19

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: earnestness, gullibility, honesty

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#20

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#21

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#22

“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: inspirational, life, metaphor

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#23

“Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: time

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#24

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: honesty, lies, truth

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#25

“some stories don't need telling”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#26

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#27

“I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They only let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#28

“Sad stories make good books”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: inspirational

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#29

“There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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#30

“Life is a train, get on board.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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